I’ve adopted an almost foolproof method for determining which movies are worth seeing. It’s really simple — the harsher the condemnation from the critics, the more I am likely to find my $10.50 well spent. I suggest the same inverse proportionality law for automotive news and the generalist media. Indeed, as a general rule of thumb, whenever the mass media is hyping something automotive or there’s a consensus of Facebook motoring tweets, the best policy is to ignore it, run away from it or, at the very least, treat it with the greatest of skepticism.

Yokosuka, Japan • The earthquakes and tsunami in Japan earlier this year has that country re-evaluating its sources of electricity — and those concerns are helping kick-start development of electric vehicles as an additional resource to the nation’s power grid. The battery that powers the all-electric Nissan Leaf is a significant storage unit for electrical […]

The outspoken host of popular British car show Top Gear on Wednesday defended an episode of the series in which he deliberately runs out of power in Japanese automaker Nissan’s Leaf electric car. Jeremy Clarkson drew a furious response from Nissan after Sunday’s episode of the BBC program showed him being pushed along in a […]